Translation and Health Risk Knowledge Building in China

119 Pages·2017·2.278 MB·English

by  Ji, Meng

TRANSLATION
AND HEALTH RISK
KNOWLEDGE
BUILDING IN CHINA
Meng Ji
Translation and Health Risk Knowledge
Building in China
Meng Ji
Translation and
Health Risk
Knowledge Building
in China
Meng Ji
The University of Sydney
Sydney, NSW
Australia
ISBN 978-981-10-4680-3 ISBN 978-981-10-4681-0 (eBook)
DOI 10.1007/978-981-10-4681-0
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A
cknowledgement
This study is supported by of a Discovery Project (DP150102405)
funded by the Australian Research Council (2015–2018). It involves the
collaboration of major translation research centres in Europe, Australia,
North America and Brazil: University of Ghent, Belgium; University
College London; University of Bari, Italy; Federal University of Minas
Gerais, Brazil; Kent State University, USA, with The University of
Sydney as the lead university on this project.
v
c
ontents
1 Introduction 1
2 Health Translation and Construction of Public Health
Risk Knowledge 9
3 A Brief Overview of the Development of Healthcare
System in China 17
4 Construction of an English-Chinese Parallel Corpus
of WHO Health Translation 31
5 A Corpus-Based Collocation Analysis of Terminological
Variation in Chinese Health Translation 53
6 Corpus Exploration of Variant Health Translation Terms 71
7 Conclusion 89
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viii CONTENTS
Appendix Chinese Translations of Selected Health Financial
Risk Terms in WHO Annual Reports 91
Bibliography 111
Index 113
l f
ist of igures
Fig. 6.1 A GR: Distribution patterns of Chinese linguistic
variations of ‘Risk Factor’ in CNKI 72
Fig. 6.2 M DR: Distribution patterns of Chinese linguistic
variations of ‘Risk Factor’ in CNKI 73
Fig. 6.3 A DR: Distribution patterns of Chinese linguistic
variations of ‘Risk Factor’ in CNKI 74
Fig. 6.4 A GR: Distribution patterns of Chinese linguistic
variations of ‘Equalisation’ in CNKI 76
Fig. 6.5 M DR: Distribution patterns of Chinese linguistic
variations of ‘Equalisation’ in CNKI 76
Fig. 6.6 A DR: Distribution patterns of Chinese linguistic
variations of ‘Equalisation’ in CNKI 77
Fig. 6.7 A GR: Distribution patterns of Chinese linguistic
variations of ‘Sustainability’ in CNKI 77
Fig. 6.8 M DR: Distribution patterns of Chinese linguistic
variations of ‘Sustainability’ in CNKI 78
Fig. 6.9 A DR: Distribution patterns of Chinese linguistic
variations of ‘Sustainability’ in CNKI 78
Fig. 6.10 A GR: Distribution patterns of Chinese linguistic
variations of ‘Capitation’ in CNKI 79
Fig. 6.11 M DR: Distribution patterns of Chinese linguistic
variations of ‘Capitation’ in CNKI 79
Fig. 6.12 A DR: Distribution patterns of Chinese linguistic
variations of ‘Capitation’ in CNKI 80
Fig. 6.13 HCA of AGR (left), ADR (right) and MDR (below) 81
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l t
ist of Ables
Table 3.1 Keywords in Chinese research publications
on healthcare system (1980–1999) (CNKI source) 21
Table 3.2 List of keywords in the WHO 2000 Annual Report 27
Table 4.1 Summary of Chinese variant translations of WHO
health financial risk terms 36
Table 5.1 Conceptual clusters of health financial risk
and intra-cluster Chinese translation variations 55
Table 5.2 Disciplinary distribution of ‘dangerous
elements (危险因子)’ in CNKI 55
Table 5.3 Top collocates of ‘dangerous elements (危险因子)’ in CNKI 56
Table 5.4 Disciplinary distribution of ‘dangerous
factors (危险因素)’ in CHKI 57
Table 5.5 Top collocates of ‘dangerous factors (危险因素)’ in CNKI 57
Table 5.6 Disciplinary distribution of ‘risk factors (风险因素)’ in CHKI 58
Table 5.7 Top collocates of ‘risk factors (风险因素)’ in CNKI 58
Table 5.8 Disciplinary distribution of ‘Equalise (均衡)’ in CHKI 59
Table 5.9 Top collocates of ‘Equalise (均衡)’ in CNKI 60
Table 5.10 Disciplinary distribution of ‘Balance (平衡)’ in CHKI 60
Table 5.11 Top collocates of ‘Balance (平衡)’ in CNKI 61
Table 5.12 Disciplinary distribution of ‘equalisation (均衡化)’ in CHKI 61
Table 5.13 Top collocates of ‘equalisation (均衡化)’ in CNKI 61
Table 5.14 Disciplinary distribution of ‘sustainability (可持续性)’
in CHKI 64
Table 5.15 Top collocates of ‘sustainability (可持续性)’ in CNKI 64
Table 5.16 Disciplinary distribution of ‘Economic dynamics (经济活力)’
in CHKI 66
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Table 5.17 Top collocates of ‘Economic dynamics (经济活力)’ in CNKI 66
Table 5.18 Disciplinary distribution of ‘Economic affordability’
(经济承受能力) in CHKI 67
Table 5.19 Top collocates of ‘Economic affordability’ (经济承受能力)
in CNKI 67
Table 5.20 Disciplinary distribution of ‘Tax per head (人头税)’ in CHKI 68
Table 5.21 Top collocates of ‘Tax per head (人头税)’ in CNKI 68
Table 5.22 Disciplinary distribution of ‘Payment per capita (按人头付费)’
in CHKI 69
Table 5.23 Top collocates of ‘Payment per capita (按人头付费)’ in CNKI 69
Table 6.1 Comparison of variant translations of ‘Risk Factor’
in Chinese research and media publications 75
Table 6.2 Comparison of variant translations of ‘Equalisation’
in Chinese research and media publications 82
Table 6.3 Comparison of variant translations of ‘Sustainability’
in research and media publications 82
Table 6.4 Comparison of variant translations of ‘Capitation’
in Chinese research and media publications 82
Table 6.5 Summary of regression analysis of Chinese translation
of risk factor, i.e. ‘Disease Risk Factor’ 83
Table 6.6 Summary of regression analysis of Chinese translation
for Equalisation 83
Table 6.7 Summary of regression analysis of Chinese translation
for Sustainability 84
Table 6.8 Summary of of the Chinese translation
for Capitation, 84
Table 6.9 Coding of linguistic variations of health conceptual
clusters (translations are indicated by T) 85